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Texas Art Teacher Certification Exam

Subjects : teaching, arts
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1. Embroidery done in cross-stitch on fine single net






2. Spanish founder of cubism; made Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to seek to create a new visual reality and provoke revolutionary upheaval; his figures are broken into large - flat planes with dislocated body parts; used African masks; very non-Western; Gue






3. Joining small pieces of metal together using molten metal - bonding metals and alloys that melt at temperatures below 840






4. Method of painting in which the colors are mixed with egg yolk or other substances - instead of oil






5. Pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed.






6. Where the revolving door was fully developed






7. Enameling technique - used more gold and less color than cloisonne. Starts with thick gold piece - cut tiny troughs wherever want color to be - gold is most prominent in end - rarely has patterns engraved.






8. Incised engraving - the process of printing from engraved plates - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate - ex: the plate is smeared with ink and Then wiped clean. The ink left in the recesses is what makes the print.






9. The dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light; what we know as the color names blue - green - and so forth.






10. Material used to imbed rings - bracelets - necklaces -etc when making hand-wrought jewelry






11. Printmaking where the design is scratched into the steel plate with a hard - steel tool






12. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines






13. Wrought iron - hammered copper - painted tin NOT pewter






14. A style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s - modern technique with which a painter creates optical illusions with the use of dazzling patterns - abstract art athat uses geometric shapes and vivid colors to create optical illusions - such as an il






15. Emphasis of this architecture is on the horizontal






16. Date: 1839-1906 Important: Painted Mount Saint Victoire in Aix en- Provence over 60 times. Each painting is different b/c of angle and light -Trust your own eyes - and fanatic for the truth -Light- vibrations of color-Like an impressionist- heavy han






17. Watercolor with inert white pigment mixed in. Inert pigment is pigment that becomes colorless or virtually colorless paint. In gouache - it serves to make the color opaque - which means it is used at full length - watercolor mixed with a high concent






18. Italian 'light-dark'. The gradation of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery; especially the illusion of rounded - three-dimensional form created through gradations of light and shade rather than line.






19. Process of smoothing metal surface witha flat or slightly round-faced hammer






20. A coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue - stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments






21. A water-base paint made with casein (which is a protein precipitated from milk)






22. An enameling technique in which thin wire partitions-cloisons-are filled with enamel. It is an art form practiced in ancient Byzantium






23. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






24. French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) - Influences include hard sharp precision of a machine age






25. Technique of ornamenting in which small grains of metal - usually gold - are soldered to a flat surface






26. Fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure - Fusing two pieces of material using a heat process; most commonly used with metal and plastics






27. A plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder - which in turn transfers it to the paper






28. Known for his glass sculpture






29. A print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil






30. Made possible by the contrariety between grease and water - printing produced through the use of ink on a flat surface (e.g. - stone or metal - A print produced by a printing process in which a smooth surface is treated so that the ink will adhere on






31. Creates blue dye






32. French Painter - who started his career as a caricaturist - then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in differe






33. A philosophical doctrine and literary and dramatic movement that insists on the existence of individuals as basic and important. believes that the world is inhernetly meaningless and individuals must find meaning in their literal - concrete existence






34. A matted tangle of hair or fiber






35. Period in which stained glass windows were introduced for church decoration






36. Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued - and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found not guilty.






37. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing - An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing






38. A plain woven lightweight - extremely sheer - airy - and soft silk fabric - containing highly twisted filament yarns. The fabric - used mainly in evening dresses and scarves - can also be made from rayon and other manufactured fibers






39. A fabric-dyeing method which uses wax to coat areas that don't need to be dyed






40. In lithography - a waxy substance used to draw or paint images on a lithographic stone or plate






41. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops






42. Term used to describe the many degrees of shading between black and white






43. Pale green






44. Paintings with the emphasis on inner emotions - sensations - or ideas rather than actual appearances






45. Processes designed to produce tonal effects






46. A solid screen - covered with icons - at the front of the church - dividing the sanctuary from the body of the building.






47. Renowned for paintings and prints






48. A decorative design made of one material sewn over another






49. Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back - leaving the impression on the face






50. Network Interface Card; the device that enables a workstation to connect to the network and communicate with other computers.







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